Content by Keyword: Child Support

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Contents
Key Themes and Findings
Perspectives on Fatherhood and Family Functioning
Perspectives on the PFF Program Experience
Perspectives on Child Support
Perspectives on Employment
Hopes and Aspirations for the Future

This report summarizes the discussion at the Emerging Issues in Paternity Disestablishment Expert Symposium convened by ASPE in January 2006 as part of a project that explored how paternity disestablishment may impact child support enforcement and child welfare policies and practice, the broader social context of best interest of the child and fai

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This report focuses on the characteristics of PFF participants and participants' employment, earnings, and child support patterns prior and subsequent to their enrollment in the program. Quarterly wage data from state unemployment compensation records were used to assess employment outcomes. State child support data on child support awards and pay

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Despite record child support collections by state child support programs, considerable sums of child support go unpaid every year. This report provides a profile of state child support debt, examining who owes it and why it has grown so rapidly, based on analysis of state administrative data. Earnings data from the wage reporting system were used

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This report draws on in-depth interviews of young fathers and families at two Partners for Fragile Families sites to assess the effects of services received on the fragile family itself and explore the dynamics of fragile families, particularly around family formation issues, and how poor couples make strategic life course decisions. From April 20

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Through site visit interviews, focus groups, analysis of program documents, and preliminary review of participant data, this report documents how the Partners for Fragile Families (PFF) programs began, changed, and evolved. From April 2000 through the end of 2003, nine states conducted PFF demonstrations, which were designed to help fragile famili

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This report provides information about State child support enforcement offices experiences with data warehouses; that is, how they are used to help manage program operations, assess program effectiveness and efficiency, and inform policy development. This report summarizes findings from discussions with staff in nine states about the development,

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Most foster children are not living with their fathers at the time they are removed from their homes. Once in foster care, these children may experience even less contact with their nonresident fathers. This study sought to assess typical child welfare practice with respect to nonresident fathers of children in foster care. The study also examined

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This study describes policies and practices in Connecticut, Minnesota, and Texas designed to coordinate the child support enforcement program, Medicaid, and SCHIP in order to secure and sustain appropriate health care coverage for child support-eligible children. Based on the findings from site visits to the three states, the report documents both

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CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES USING TITLE IV-D SERVICES IN 1995
By Matthew Lyon
May 1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Data Source and Methodology
Findings
Overall Child Support Population
Participation in Welfare and Other Government Programs
Family Income and Poverty

State Practices in Medical Child Support Cross-Program Coordination
Prepared by : Lynne Fender, Jen Bernstein (The Urban Institute)
for : Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Office of the Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
June 2003
This report is available on the Internet at: http://a

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